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Implantable pressure and strain sensors based on biodegradable materials have been designed to naturally decompose after their useful lifetime, eliminating the need for surgical extraction of the device.

The memristor — a resistor with memory — was first postulated back in 1971, but it took nearly four decades before it was experimentally confirmed. Leon O. Chua explains how he developed a nonlinear circuit theory in which the memristor emerges naturally as the fourth basic circuit element.

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Single isolated magnetic skyrmions can be electrically written and deleted at room temperature in a magnetic device with a technologically relevant stripline geometry, a process that can be directly observed using time-resolved X-ray pump–probe measurements.

This Review Article assesses the different techniques used to characterize memristive switching in nanoionic devices and proposes a general framework for such devices, based on the relative strengths and weaknesses in each case.

Implantable pressure and strain sensors based on biodegradable materials have been designed to naturally decompose after their useful lifetime, eliminating the need for surgical extraction of the device.

Carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistors and integrated circuits, which offer low power consumption and highly uniform performance, can be transferred to arbitrary substrates, including biodegradable polymers, plant leaves, and a person's wrist.

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